Recommend a course MSc e-Learning at Oxford.

From Jay – A 1999 SmartForce white paper, one of the early mentions of eLearning on the web, defined eLearning:

* e-Learning is dynamic. Today’s content, in real time, not old news or “shelfware.” On-line experts, best sources, quick-and-dirty approaches for emergencies.

* e-Learning operates in real time. You get what you need, when you need it.

* e-Learning is collaborative. Because people learn from one another, e-Learning connects learners with experts, colleagues, and professional peers, both in and outside your organization.

* e-Learning is individual. Every e-learner selects activities from a personal menu of learning opportunities most relevant to her background, job, and career at that
very moment. e-Learning is comprehensive.

* e-Learning provides learning events from many sources, enabling the e-learner to select a favored format or learning method or training provider.

* e-Learning enables the enterprise. e-Learning builds enterprise learning communities.

eLearning / E-Learning – learning that is accomplished over the Internet, a computer network, via CD-ROM, interactive TV, or satellite broadcast.

eLearning / E-Learning – Broad definition of the field of using technology to deliver learning and training programs. Typically used to describe media such as CD-ROM, Internet, Intranet, wireless and mobile learning. Some include Knowledge Management as a form of e-learning. Took awhile for the right term to come about, circa 1995 it was all called “Internet based Training”, then “Web-based Training” (to clarify that delivery could be on the Inter- or Intra-net), then “Online Learning” and finally e-learning, adopting the in vogue use of “e-” during the dot com boom. The “e-” breakthrough enabled the industry to reaise hundreds of millions from venture capitalists who would invest in any industry that started with this magic letter.

eLearning / E-learning (electronic learning): Term covering a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the delivery of content via Internet, intranet/extranet (LAN/WAN), audio- and videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, CD-ROM, and more.

eLearning / e-Learning – Any learning that utilizes a network (LAN, WAN or Internet) for delivery, interaction, or facilitation. This would include distributed learning , distance learning (other than pure correspondence ), CBT delivered over a network, and WBT . Can be synchronous , asynchronous , instructor-led or computer-based or a combination.

A number of online glossaries provide definitions of the tribal terms we use in e-learning:

* E-Learning Glossary (Brandon Hall Research)
* E-Learning Essentials | E-Learning Glossary (World Wide Learn)
* E-Learning Mega Glossary (e-Learning Guru)
* Learning Circuits Glossary (Learning Circuits)
* Distance Learning Glossary (eLearners.com)